Tag: Carolina
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South Carolina restarts executions after 13 years
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for lethal injections. Owens was convicted of the 1997 killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk during a robbery. While on trial, Owens killed a…
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Kamala Harris campaign seizes on suburban women as key in North Carolina strategy
When Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins of the Democratic nomination in late July, something happened in North Carolina. Volunteers started pouring in by the thousands. Of the more than 23,500 people who stepped forward, 94% of them had never done so before, according to the campaign. In the week after President Joe Biden…
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North Carolina hospital company forgives debts of 11,500 people after NBC News report
In July, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, announced a medical debt relief program that all of the state’s 99 eligible hospitals agreed to participate in, forgiving medical debts dating back to Jan. 1, 2014, for Medicaid beneficiaries. In addition, medical debt considered uncollectible for patients whose income is at or below at least 350% of the…
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Unnamed storm brings a foot of rain to parts of North Carolina, heads north
Hard rain of 1 foot and more inundated the southeastern coast of North Carolina on Monday as a storm with no name moved ashore and aimed for the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. The National Hurricane Center calls it Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 and said in forecast updates that the front will weaken as it travels…